Definition of approximate. Meaning of approximate. Synonyms of approximate

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Definition of approximate

Approximate
Approximate Ap*prox"i*mate, a. [L. approximatus, p. p. of approximare to approach; ad + proximare to come near. See Proximate.] 1. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling. 2. Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.
Approximate
Approximate Ap*prox"i*mate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Approximated; p. pr. & vb. n. Approximating.] 1. To carry or advance near; to cause to approach. To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature. --Burke. 2. To come near to; to approach. The telescope approximates perfection. --J. Morse.
Approximate
Approximate Ap*prox"i*mate, v. i. To draw; to approach.

Meaning of approximate from wikipedia

- for instance, physicists often approximate the shape of the earth as a sphere even though more accurate representations are possible,
- means 'approximately' in english , italian and slovak , usually referring to a date circa is widely used in genealogy and historical
- in computer science and operations research , approximation algorithms are algorithm s used to find approximate solutions to optimization
- in mathematics , approximation theory is concerned with how function s can best be approximated with simpler functions , and with
- the first problem was to know how well a real number can be approximated by rational numbers. for this problem, a rational number a/b is a
- following ascii character are used to approximate: 0020 (space): alignment and justification . 0022 various type of double quotes , double
- in functional analysis and ring theory, an approximate identity is a net in a banach algebra or ring (possibly without an identity) that
- in computer science , approximate string matching (often colloquially referred to as fuzzy string searching) is the technique of finding
- approximate inference methods make it possible to learn realistic models from big data by trading off computation time for accuracy, when
- approximate bayesian computation (abc) constitutes a class of computational methods rooted in bayesian statistics . in all model-based